>>Our company just purchased a new database computer with twin Xeon processors. Is there anything in VFP 6 that would allow us to take advantage of dual processors?
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>Not directly, since VFP's unable to spread a single instance of itself across multiple processors or spawn new threads directly. If you're currently finding system response sluggish because of CPU-intensive operations, the second processor will allow other things to run even while VFP has one processor buried...
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>In order to take advantage of the dual processor architecture at all, you need to run NT or Win2K - Win9x has no multiprocessor support built-in. VFP won't run part of itself on each processor, but other things that can run in parallel (like the operating system, or other applications) won't get caught up waiting on VFP if VFP gets into a CPU-intensive operation.
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>One obvious way to exploit the dual processor architecture is to run more than one instance of VFP, splitting the workload where there is a way to see and exploit some inherent parallelism.

Ed,

Do you know if there's any way to specify which processor should start a VFP session on an SMP box? I'd be a bit concerned trying to manage one, that two or more VFP instances might start up on the same CPU.